Abelli, Louis

was born in the Vexin Francois, in
1603. He was promoted to be grand vicar of Bayonne,
then curate of Paris, and lastly bishop of Rhodes, in 1664,
which he resigned about three years afterwards, in order to
live a retired life in the house of St. Lazare, at Paris. He
died Oct. 4, 1691, aged 88 years. His principal works
are: 1. “Medulla Theologica,” 2 vols. 12mo, which
gained him the title of Modleuz A belli (the marrowy) from
Boileau. 2. A treatise “De la Hierarchic, et de l’autorité du Pape,” 4to. 3. “La Tradition de l’Eglise, touchant
la devotion a Sainte Vierge,” 8vo, 1662, a work which
the Protestants have often quoted against Bossuet. 4. “La
Vie de M. Renard,” 12mo. 5. “La Vie de St. Vincent
de Paul,” 4to, in which he openly declares himself
against the Jansenists. 6. “Enchiridion sollicitudinis pastoralis,” 4to. 7. “Meditation pour chaque jour de Tanne’e,” 2 vols. 12mo. His Latin style is harsh, and his
French writings are accounted by his countrymen flat and
insipid. They allow him, however, to have excelled in
every sacerdotal virtue, and to have been exemplary in his
pastoral offices. 2

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